I'm making a DivX file in Virtual Dub, and I made a pretty decent picture quality video that's about 40 MB, but the sound quality was terrible after I compressed it. I used MPEG-Layer 3 at 56 kBits/sec (22, 050 Hz).

RadicalEd0 wrote:If you can't use mp3, vorbis, or anything better, use ATRAC3 compression, it runs at a fixed bitrate of about 282 kbps, which is a lot better than pcm.

I've never heard of ATRAC3.

I don't mean to imply I'm <I>the</I> authority of what's known and what's not, but I do try to keep up with the different codecs available.

If I've never heard of it, then I guarantee plenty of other pwoplw will have never heard of it.

If plenty of people have never heard of it, then plenty of people won't have the needed codecs installed, and therefore audio playback won't work properly.

If, however, it comes standard with Windows, then I simply don't remember it because it's not worth using.

Of course, this is all just my opinion. Make of it what you will. But I wouldn't recommend using an audio codec which, quite possibly, either few people will be able to easily use or which will sound like @$$.

hmm... ATRAC3 is the compression used for minidisk, so its fairly old, but it dosent sound like crap, and I'm pretty sure its standard. But funny thing is, I was just trying to encode something to test it and it won't seem to work :/ I still say go with vorbis o.o